Phylogeography, genetic diversity, and population structure of Nile crocodile populations at the fringes of the southern African distribution.
Nile crocodiles are apex predators widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa that have been viewed and managed as a single species.A complex picture of broad and fine-scale phylogeographic patterns that includes the recognition of two species (Crocodylus niloticus and Crocodylus suchus), and the structuring of populations according to river basins h